Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015

Kacey Musgraves rips #1 from labelmate Easton Corbin by less than two thousand albums in this special 11 day tracking report from SoundScan and RoughStock!

The top-selling country album for a second week is Kacey Musgraves' Pageant Material. Because of the 11 day tracking period, that means that Easton Corbin's About To Get Realretains the #1 for last week's chart but may get scrubbed in the future because of the chart moves due to the Friday world release day move. However the news from last Wendesday still holds true for Easton and he gets to celebrate having the #1 album on the Albums Chart (nearly 27k scanned). At #3 for the Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015 is Sam Hunt's Montevallo. Itsits at #3 with sales now at nearly 633k to date while Zac Brown Band's Jekyll + Hyde sits at #4 with 436k to date. Sitting at #5 is Now Country 8. It has scanned over 62k in four weeks on the chart.

Top Ten Recap

Little Big Town sits at #6 with Pain Killer, a record which has scanned 287k to date. Landing at #7 is the Platinum-certified The Outsiders from Eric Church (1.001 million scanned to date). Brantley Gilbert's Just As I Am sits at #8 with 862k scanned while Jason Aldean's Old Boots, New Dirt. It is certified Platinum and has scanned 992k to date while holding down #9 this week. Rounding out the Top 10 of the Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015 is Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's Django & Jimmie and it has scanned 74k to date.

Top 5 Country Albums: July 13, 2015

Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest hundred albums sold.

Sales reflect the past 11 days as SoundScan moves from a Monday-Sunday tracking period to a Friday-Thursday sales period. This will actually now reflect a true weekly sales period for new releases unlike before where Tuesday release meant that Sunday-Monday weren't tracked in the first week of sales.

acapellaluv

Livewire

Hi Matt
Really appreciate the sales and report. Sometimes you get to see the new releases by artists which did not make the Top 50 Country Chart.
With this special transition week perhaps the Soundscan data you used is a day or so ahead of Billboard.
I expect things will settle in with the new 7 day fixed period next week Friday-through-Thursday tracked data and (charts dated Aug. 1)
For Easton Corbin Billboard say 25,000 copies in 11 Day period
For Kacey Musgraves Billboard say 24,000 copies
The top 5 Country Albums (based on sales) published by Billboard (chart date July 25, 2015) is as follows:
TW LW 2WKS WKS
1 1 â 2 Easton Corbin About To Get Real
2 2 1 3 Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material Mercury

Matt Bjorke

I'm not. It's the chart that SoundScan sent out yesterday for this week. All of our charts are based on SoundScan's data. If any adjustments are sent out, we'll adjust them. Otherwise, the first full week of chart news on the new Friday cycle, will NOT be known til next Monday.